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So recently I went to a talk by some forensic experts, and it was kind of a daring talk, the kind where they show you what autopsies actually look like. And the crowd just, it was sort of a

gruesome thing. And most of the crowd was like groaning the whole time.

What do you think of when you see all of these kind of hear these amazing tales of how people

have died and see that on the screen? Can you handle it? Well, I mean, you know, if it's in the kind of glossy

TV version, then yeah, I find it really interesting.

But how close is the kind of autopsy table on law and order to what you actually see?

It was a little past it, I'll say, but I'm definitely one that's always been, even the law and order stuff was too far for me.

I can't handle it, but I know there's a subculture of people that really find the idea of how people die,

especially in the weirdest ways, kind of fascinating.

Well, I mean, I think, you know, anyone who has consciousness has to at some point contemplate

whether that consciousness continues forever or whether it

ends. And the thought of it ending is extremely scary, I think, for me at least. And so I think

we are fascinated by that topic. And the bizarre ways in which people die, I think, kind of speaks to

this, you know, the serendipity aspect of mortality, that you could do all the right

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